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http://88percent.blogspot.com/

i found myself worrying about this guy.

why?

He seems to be playing ever so slightly above his bankroll.

Not really worrying but just expecting the well i've lost it all and borrowed more and lost all that entry.

He's open about not being arsed to grind in anyway whatsoever, he wants the rush of doing his rent in one hand when thats all he has.

eye opening blog..thing i noticed was "i borrowed from my parents"...and he`s a teenager....interesting parental approach to parental trust.

i can only imagine if i went to my dad and said...can you spot me 3 or 4k ...

He's welsh...... I have no sympathy.  ;goodvevil;

But I respect the size of his gonads. Stupidity or gutsy? You decide.

He seems to have gone from really low limits to higher limits very quickly. If you look at some of his previous blog entries

What is his name on crypto?

We should do a sweepstake on which day of this month he will go busto.
I'll take September 16th.

I found this quite funny.


"Balloo The Bear said...

    Jumping Josephat said

    "ignore my advice"

    This is the single best way to improve your game that he has posted so far.

    11:48 AM "

Just read the latest entry and I agree, it's a great read, only because you can sense his demise is upcoming.

But, he's been given the advice and it's his decision to whether he takes it on board.

I'm afraid, as a self-confessed gambler who plays out of his bankroll, he is always going to go bust.

I agree snoops, i think it's a read that people should use as a cautionary tale.

But for every 99 of these guys that goes bust, one will build up a seven figure bankroll, play at the highest limits, get known as a young hotshot player and inspire legions of others to fall into the trap that the 99 fell into.

And then the cycle continues.

ah the pain of youth

Did anyone ever see a TV show on Pokerzone.  It was about Student poker players, there was one player who had dropped out of Uni and was playing full time. On the show, everyone who was interviewed( Including himself ) claimed he was the next big thing in poker.  Anyone know who I am talking about, I can't remember the guys name.  Maybe something to do with University Poker League.  For all I know, he may even be a blondite  :D

Was it Scott O'Reilly?

I remember that show, guy was a joker! Made Hellmuth look calm. Destined to go broke!

I think there was a bit in the show where he said he had lost $20,000 one night.  The interviewer then asked the guys parents how much they thought was the most he had ever lost. They had no idea it was that much.  Was that the same guy you saw Flushy?

He had a big win recently I think

Scott cashed big(ish) in this yearsmain event

Yep he came 53rd for $164000 i think

August 28th:

"my bankroll has now reached £17.4k. which is enough for both epts coming up, but i might leave the money in there a little longer to see if i can get a little higher ..."

September 2nd:

" ... today. my account is down to £3200 ... i'm putting £1600 more in now into £40/£80 (it is a soft table). if i lose that i will stop and go back to $25/$50 or lower"

Love the balls .... but I fear with no post in the last few days it may all be gone ;goodvevil;

Does anyone know the answer to this then or what?

No, I don't know.  Sorry

His alias is: BLEscousE ... but he occasionally plays under different names when he is on a roll and can afford to dump money into other skins

Ive watched him play, hes awfull

His latest blog entry is pretty incredible ... swings to within an inch of losing everything ... and then has a £20,000 reversal of fortne on the £40/£80 NL game!

He as at now at the Barca EPT ... someone get his name and get Jen and snoopy to track him down!

lol   he likes living dangerously

Ed Hollis is his name

This is him...........

(http://www.tracey-emin.co.uk/images/reg-hollis.jpg)

lol @ reg hollis

first post I've laughed at today  :D

He's on the list. Could do with a REAL picture of him tho...

Ed Hollis?   I take it this is a character from a TV show?     :D ,  I don't watch them, so have no idea who he is

Me 2.... :goodpost:

Just read this blog.  No need to worry about him - his bank roll is now £88k gained by some amazing outdraws.

nice one, you know the following posts will be a great roller coaster.

He can certainly play a bit but theres nothing like sucking out in massive pots to boost the bankroll.

His bankrollis now over 100k   ;gobsmacked;

This is a great blog but I'm so worried about him I've had to reply on his blog. I guess it was going to happen sooner or later.

he's doing his brains in on $250/500 nl

Ive only just seen this today but have got through the February so far, i can see where its going to lead!!! Shall have fun reading through it..

Think ive just found one but its on another forum so im guessing I cant post the link.

Gotta feel for this lad. Amazing stuff!!

Countdown to busto is well and truly on for our friend.

In his latest post he reports on a $73,000 loss in 3 hrs - more than half his bankroll.

His blog also feature the classic sentence 'i was fully intent on betting £40k on one of the champions league matches in the week. i figured i would probably lose at sports betting so i'd do one or 2 bets and then stop altogether.'

I think he may need to brush up on his attention to detail - especially at the poker table!!

multi tabling at that level is what I don't get. "the $100/$200 6 seater was running and i sat in. an hour and a half later it was still going and i started to play $50/$100 hu at the same time" why would you multi table this? especially playing a HU match at the same time is suicide IMO....blah what do I know...

I think it's already been said (100s of times probably), but it doesn't matter how good you are on the table, if your bankroll can't sustain you at the levels you're playing - you WILL go bust.

He's possibly plays the game better than I ever will, but I'd be willing to bet (within the limits of my bankroll of course) that  he loses his entire bankroll and I don't. 

That makes him a poor poker player overall.  He could earn a nice living playing at a level that his bankroll will allow, but instead he wants to throw it all away.

Now down to a mere £10k. Sick when you think he had £170k at one point.

I dont think hes inept approach to bankroll management is actually that bad, we're not robots, the champions league quote is classic, i've played on the same table as him a couple of times and never really rated him that much as a player, he was on a nice roll and he will have it so fair play to him.

He's obv picked up a ton of experience in the process but you have to find your level of incompetance and move down a rung to where you can be comfortable.
Playing nosebleed stakes with the best in the world you will either go broke or become one of the best.

Its pretty obvious that a big factor is game selection, emotional control and poker/life balance.
Unfortunately I see this guy going busto until he realises he needs to be playing 3/6 or 5/10 for a few months at least.

he's an awful player, anyone decent who has a bankroll would clean him out, just had a hot run, and now mr varience is kicking in.  some of the hands ge speaks about on his blog are laughable, seems a nice kid tho

Yeah agree.

Who had January 2nd in the busto sweepstake?


http://88percent.blogspot.com/2007/01/2007-starting-afresh-2006-review.html

i must dash.........off to the £0.15/£0.25 and £0.25/£0.50  tables                   ;)

Damn  i had Jan 3rd

Why didn't he just drop down a few levels before he hit the bottom of his bankroll?  His game is obviously not good enough, and the question is, will it be good enough for any level?

How quickly is he going to get bored playing at those stakes?  I'd love to play the bigger games, but without the bankroll AND the game to go with it, it would be stupid.

For him it's a case of easy come, easy go I guess.

Just read a bit further down:


 >:?

exactly, has he laearnt nothing. So he is dropping down to play 25p 50p and but wants to make 500k online or 250k by june. He is quite clearly going to build up a roll then put it all onj the line again moving up stakes to quickly trying to get within in touching distance of when he had a decent amount.

Cheesy quote but true in this case

"One who does not learn from history is doomed to repeat it"

He does seem like a decent bloke and his blog has entertained hundreds of readers but for christs sake, 500k?? what kind of a goal is that???

As you say, the minute he gets his roll to 4 figures he will dump it all on a 5/10 or 10 /20 table, and even if he wins that session, the 4k he might have then will all go on a higher table.

Doomed before he starts because of that goal he has set.

£170k to nowt in just a few months, that is just beyond crazy. No one should play 250/500 and less you have a couple of gazillion dollars handy!!

He really needs help I think, latest post says he played £0.15/£0.25 with a £400 roll. Got bored and donked the whole lot on $25/$50 despite being $4100 up at one point...

In his latest update in the comments he has revealed his parents read his blog.  Unbelievable.

reading this blog makes me feel kinda sad inside :(

How many tables does he play?

He's had a crazy ride. He started with nothing and has enjoyed a year of high stakes gambling, doing his own thing and answering to no-one.

Now it seems the wheels have come off and his ride is all but over. If all he loses is his ISA and he can avoid getting into debt then he's still had a great year. I think given his honesty and openess he may be able avoid desperate trouble and get help if he needs it.

Good luck to him.

I just read this from Feb last year.  It is very entertaining to read his journey.  I don't think he has any fear of losing cash whatsoever.  Why the heck doesn't he play £1/2 on Crypto?  He would be making good money at that level and wouldn't have the crazy swings that he does.  Maybe I don't have a gamblers mindset, but even £1/2 NL is high stakes for someone like me.  He says things like "only played £2/5 today" as if it is micro limits..  crazy, but in a lot of ways I do admire him for his brave ( reckless ) attitude to playing, he plays without a safety net all the time

Ed's blog is probably the most extreme example of what fuels a lot of the high stakes poker on the internet.

A lot of these players are straight out of school or university and have never had 'a proper job'. Many of them have no financial responsibilities (no mortgage or kids) and have never known real financial hardship. As such, when they win big at poker, once they've bought a few luxury items for themselves, they really have nothing to spend the money on except higher stakes tables.

A player with more life experience is far more likely to save this extra money for a rainy day, as they know that tough times can always be just round the corner. A kid has never known anything except financial good weather - for them the skies are clear. Hence they gamble their way up to the biggest tables. Also, whilst it may hurt to lose all their money, it's not the end of the world. If the worst comes to the worst, they can always move back in with mum and dad and go and get a job.

Still, he's going to feel a bit of eejit when he reads it all back at some point.

I found this on P5's.  It looks a bit like tanks STT pyramid system.  I know tank isn't a fan of that system, but do you think this would work?   There seems very little risk involved as you can only lose your initial buy in at that table .   If this is a good system, it should be pointed out to the blog guy by someone, it may be a help to him.

http://www.pocketfives.com/A134D96D-2630-4C03-AAD6-CC49272F4932.aspx


In second thoughts, he may not have the self control to stop and may end up losing even more than normal

Is there any worth in something like this?   opinions 

It's essentially a Martingale-style staking scheme, albeit in a +EV environment (provided you're a winning player) as opposed to the -EV world of roulette.


This is the major flaw in the plan. In a NL cash game you can get stacked for all the money you have at the table - you may not be able to get out with only half a max buy-in. As this is supposed to be the thing which stops you from going broke, this is a big problem.

Essentially, the plan is to have all your initial buy-in on the table at once - I'm sure I don't have to explain why this is poor bankroll management. If you don't have the discipline to cash out when you're ahead it's doomed to failure.

I think this is why I only like playing STT. When I don't cash, all I have lost is $5 or $10, but with cash games the temptation to re-buy again and again would be strong.

From reading his blog, he seems like a really nice and decent guy. He should definitely write a book about the last year, not many 19 yr olds have had that kind of poker year.  Smart guy, I hope he does well.  Good luck

Maybe not the adjective I would have used...

lol,  by the way he writes, it is clear he is a bright guy

And it's over.

http://88percent.blogspot.com/2007/01/final-post.html (http://88percent.blogspot.com/2007/01/final-post.html)

By the way he manages managed his bankroll he is clearly not that bright!!!!

That is self control, not intelligence, and he is clearly intelligent.
After a break and a bit of maturity he will probably come back a better player you and I can ever hope to be.

Agreed.  The young guns did not get to the high limits by grinding away at the low limits.  They risk their entire bankrolls and a small percentage make it.  The blog was well written and I can feel his pain.

I half wish I had his guts to be honest...not to the level that I would piss away my entire bankroll but to climb up a level or two (which my bankroll would allow me to do) and not feel uncomfortable when playing higher stakes.

I reckon he'll be back playing within a month, and have committed suicide within three.

That was the best poker blog on the net, I feel for the bloke and to be honest hes not lost anything.
I think he will back on the tables real soon.

I bit unecessary I think. I hear enough rubbish about the negative aspects of poker from the media tyvm.

v  necessary i think.

the boy has mental health issues thar need to be adressed ASAP.

hopefully,he has taken the 1st step himself.

I hope not for his sake.

The ups and downs of his blog gave everyone a vicarious thrill, but developing a gambling problem like he clearly is won't do him any favours.

I hope he forgets about poker, goes and gets a job for a bit and enjoys life that's not gambling big sums he can't afford.

He seems like a good guy, I wouldn't like him to turn into one of the sad stories of poker, 50 grand in hock trying to play his way out of a hole.

That's my opinion. This is a poker forum where opinions are aired. If you don't like it, tough.

How has he got mental health issues?

Because he's a bit of a punter that played outside of he's bankroll?

I'd of been in the mental health unit of my local hospital for the past 10 years if that was the case.

He obviously is intelligent enough to have a decent game.  His problem is clearly bankroll management, and the common sense needed to realise that variance will come into play and that the return may go down as well as up (and your home is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on loans made against it, etc.).

Maybe he needed a mentor, someone who could have showed him that he could have made an excellent living from poker, just not at the ridiculous levels he was playing where is bankroll couldn't sustain him.

His other problem is the fact that he's an everton fan.  In that respect, he is beyond help.

I dont think he's coming back this time  :'(